AND I WILL HAVE THAT COMING UP IN JUST ABOUT FIVE MINUTES. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, JOHN. TONIGHT CHANNEL 4 INVESTIGATES LEARNING THE JACKSONVILLE FIRE MARSHAL IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MAKING RACIST REMARKS ABOUT CONCERTGOERS IN JACKSONVILLE. THE ALLEGATIONS ARE AGAINST DIVISION CHIEF KEVIN JONES. A PICTURE FROM AN INTERVIEW SEVERAL YEARS AGO. ACCORDING TO A COMPLAINT, JONES USED A RACIAL SLUR TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE ATTENDING THE WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE MUSIC FESTIVAL AT METRO PARK LAST WEEKEND. STATION'S JIM PIGGOTT JOINS US LIVE FROM FIRE HEADQUARTERS WHERE HE TALKED TO FIRE CHIEF MARTY SENTERFITT. DOES THE FIRE MARSHAL STILL HAVE HIS JOB. Reporter: HE DOES AND THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING. AND NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE DEPARTMENT. POINT OUT THINGS IN THIS E-MAIL RIGHT HERE. BASICALLY IT SAID THAT CHIEF JONES -- IN THE E-MAIL IT SAID THAT HE USED THE N WORD WHEN DESCRIBING THE CROWDS WHEN IT CAME TO THAT ROCKVILLE CONCERT. AND IN THAT HE ALSO JOKED ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS. THE CONCERT CALLED WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE ATTRACTS ALL KIND OF PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT RACES AND SOME ARE SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT THE HEAD OF THE CITY'S FIRE PREVENTION DIVISION, THE CITY FIRE MARSHAL IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR MAKING A RACIAL REMARK REGARDING THE CROWD. THIS IS VIDEO OF CHIEF KEVIN JONES FROM AN INTERVIEW WE DID WITH HIM BACK IN 2005. HE HAS ONLY BEEN THE FIRE MARSHAL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. JONES DIDN'T COMMENT TODAY, BUT CHIEF SENTERFITT DID. THIS MATTER IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. THE WHOLE ISSUE IS THAT A CHIEF MADE AN INAPPROPRIATE STATEMENT OR USED AN INAPPROPRIATE PHRASE, AND IT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. SO WE CAN'T SPEAK ON THE INVESTIGATION. Reporter: HERE IS WHAT WE LEARNED. WE RECEIVED AN E-MAIL THAT WENT TO THE CITY COMPLAINING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. IT SAYS IN A SPECIAL EVENTS STAFF MEETING LAST FRIDAY, DIVISION CHIEF JONES WAS GOING OVER THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE ALLOWED IN THE PARK. THE CHIEF SAID THAT WE CAN'T ALLOW MORE THAN 20,000 PEOPLE IN THE PARK. AND IF THOSE BLANKS TRY TO PUT MORE THAN THAT IN THE PARK, THEY WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH ME. IT GOES ON TO SAY AFTER LAUGH BEING THE REMARKS AND MAKING LIGHT OF IT, -- LAUGHING ABOUT THE REMARKS AND MAKING LIGHT OF IT, HE SAID THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN GET AWAY FROM USING THE N SWORD LIEUTENANT McLAMB WHO IS WHITE BECAUSE OF HIS SIZE. THE PERSON WHO FILED THE CLAIM SAID IT WAS OFFENSIVE TO HIM AS A BLACK MAN BECAUSE OF THE RACIAL ISSUES GOING ON IN THE DEPARTMENT. THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED, THE CHIEF, HE, HIMSELF HAVE AFRICAN-AMERICAN. Reporter: I ASKED THE CHIEF, DOES RACE MAKE A DIFFERENCE? WOULD IT BE DIFFERENT IF EVERYONE WERE WHITE? YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ALWAYS GOT TO REMEMBER THAT DIVERSITY IN A WORKPLACE MEAN WE HAVE TO BE UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTING OF EVERYBODY'S CULTURE AND EVERYBODY'S VALUES. Reporter: YOU KNOW DID I CONTACT THE MAN WHO FILED THIS COMPLAINT, BUT HE REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ON CAMERA TODAY. I ALSO TALKED TO THE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FIRE FIGHTERS, THE BROTHERHOOD OF BLACK FIRE FIGHTERS. THEY, TOO, COULDN'T TALK ON CAMERA, BUT THEIR PRESIDENT DID SAY HE TALKED TO CHIEF SENTERFITT ABOUT THIS ISSUE. HE BELIEVES IN EVERY CASE LIKE THIS, EVERYBODY SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

The fire marshal of Jacksonville Fire-Rescue Division is under investigation for making racist remarks about people attending last weekend's Welcome to Rockville concert.

According to an email to the city, Division Chief Kevin Jones used a racial slur -- the N word -- to describe people going to the music festival held at Metro Park. According to the complaint, Jones was going over the number of people allowed in the park when he allegedly said: "We can't allow more than 20,000 people in the park and if those ------- try to put more than that in the park, they will have to deal with me."

The complaint goes on to say that he went on to laugh about the remarks and making light of it.

Some are surprised to hear that the head of the city's fire prevention division is under investigation for making a racial remark. Jones has been with the department for years, but he has only been the fire marshal for several months.

Jones would not comment Friday about the allegations, but his boss -- Fire Chief Marty Senterfitt -- did.

"This matter is under investigation," Senterfitt said. "The whole issue is, a chief made an inappropriate statement or used an inappropriate phase and it's under investigation."

The person who filed the complaint said it was offensive to him as a black man because of the racial issues going on in the department... something Senterfitt found odd.

"The individual involved -- the chief -- he is an African-American. He is the epitome of diversity on the fire department," Senterfitt said. "Diversity is very important on this job, to make sure we understand every side of this community. The danger is we can not allow diversity to be used as a weapon or tool for ulterior motives to attack other people. Until we do this investigation its hard to say where this is coming from."

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